Do you have a link to that anywhere? I can't seem to find the model (it looks like it may be a few years old?)

As I mentioned, I'm also looking for a lappy, but I'm having trouble finding one with an nVidia graphics card (it's important for me to have solid graphics drivers, and I've had poor experiences with Intel and ATI (with Linux)).

Still no beans on a google search, but I looked at HP's main site and it looks as though there are other, similar models (ie: they dont list dv4, per se, but dv4i and dv4t. Might it be regional? I'm purchasing in the US. Also, do you know what graphics card you have in the laptop? If it isn't nVidia, what was your experience with getting it to work?

I have three laptops: a Toshiba Tecra 8100 (PIII Coppermine), a Fujitsu Lifebook C2010 (PIV Prescott), and a Panasonic Toughbook CF-51 (Core Duo Yonah). I'm very impressed with the Toughbook -- it runs KDE 4.3 with the visual effects enabled, and it's smooth and compiles things quickly, even though it's four years old.

I just ordered a real hard drive for it -- I'm booting it using (alternately) an external U.S.B. hard drive and a 16GB flash drive because it didn't come with one.

I've had a really easy time getting everything working under Gentoo with several recent eMacine's (by Acer). For the most part, everything just worked, wireless, web cameras and all. The most recent of these was an eME527. I believe I had to manually fetch some firmware for the wireless - but after that, perfect.

Most recently, I set up two Gateways (also by Acer) and everything worked easily. The most recent was a Gateway EC1440U and before that an EC1803u (same computer, different CPU) which is no more than a rebranded Acer. Both of these also worked with no tweaking at all with Linux Mint 9.

For about three years I've been tweaking a Sony VGN-N250E. Over time, almost everything works. What's caused the most trouble is are the special Fn keys. At one time I had all those working, but after some kernel upgrades, they don't work anymore. But, most of the functions do work with applets on the XFCE4 taskbar. I can't recommend Sony laptops. My experience seems to be fairly common._________________Andy Figueroa
andy@andyfigueroa.us Working with Unix since 1983.

I use an Acer D257 netbook,currently triple boot, win7 lion and gentoo, works great, and very portable! the only thing i cant get working is the sdcard reader, on gentoo or mac but other than that its as if it were meant to be!